Comment.

Four young boys were arrested in Chicago recently for posing as agents of the F. B. I. They telephoned to a local high school, and asked the names, addresses, and phone numbers of girls who were likely prospects as government employees. Then they called one of the girls and made an appointment to meet her at a drugstore for purposes of investigating her qualifications. The girl caught on immediately and called the cops. Our interest in this sordid story lies in the prose picture it gives of the younger generation. In our own day, if you wanted to captivate a girl you told her you were a theatrical producer and would put her on Broadway.

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.